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June 27, 2025

🧠 Noodletter #3 – This Is Either Loyalty or Morbid Curiosity.

Celebrating Chronoodle's 300th challenge and exploring fun time-related games and quirky historical facts!

Hiii, Noodler 🎉

Craig here. I’m back. You opened this. Let’s both reflect on that. 🥴

Nothing says "good decision-making" like opening an email from a guy with a brain emoji. 🧠✔️


Chron300dle! 💯💯💯

Guess what? We are at Chronoodle challenge #300! That’s right, THREE HUNNY! Amazing. Inspiring. Umm, neat!

So wonderful, I decided to write Noodletter #3, even.

2,100 timeline events. So many chances to be wrong. And yet, you keep at it. You’re the best. 🥰

⏳ Timey-Wimey Games

Chronoodle isn’t the only challenging time on the block. Obvs, it’s the best ever in the whole wide world, but here are a few others I’ve seen in the wild.

Flashback (NYT) – Chronology with formality and a budget

Chrono – A homegrown “all-at-once” timey-wimey chaosfest

Which Came First (Wikipedia) – A dis-or-dat timeline quiz, Android-only for now


Noodly Nuggets

Two Noodly Nuggets found their way to me this week. One will land on Instagram soon about “The 300 Club” (not the boring investment one, but the fun Antarctica one). Here’s the other that’s just too good not to share.


🗼 Gustave Eiffel and the Very Large Metaphor

Back when Eiffel proposed the tower, most folks thought it was nuts. Way too tall to work out.

  • It would be the first human-made structure to reach 200 meters,

  • AND the first to hit 300 meters in height. 😮

You can probably guess what they compared it to at the time… the Egyptian pyramids. Check out this big-headed Eiffel caricature from before the tower was completed. What a showboat!

Caricature of Gustave Eiffel
Caricature of Gustave Eiffel comparing the Eiffel tower to the Pyramids, published in Le Temps (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

If Ford had been selling F-350 Super Duty trucks at the time, Eiffel might’ve just bought two and called it a day.

Before comparing to the pyramids, they compared it to some other structures that may look familiar.

First drawing of the Eiffel Tower
First drawing of the Eiffel Tower by Maurice Koechlin (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Recognize those? Notre Dame de Paris, Statue of Liberty, and Vendôme Column.

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May your guesses be mostly in order,
Chronoodle Craig

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